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A34712	An exact abridgement of the records in the Tower of London from the reign of King Edward the Second, unto King Richard the Third, of all the Parliaments holden in each Kings reign, and the several acts in every Parliament : together with the names and titles of all the dukes, marquesses, earls, viscounts, and barons, summoned to every of the said Parliaments / collected by Sir Robert Cotton ... ; revised, rectified in sundry mistakes, and supplied with a preface, marginal notes, several ommissions, and exact tables ... by William Prynne ...	England and Wales. Parliament.; Cotton, Robert, Sir, 1571-1631.; Prynne, William, 1600-1669.	1657 (1657)	Wing C6489; ESTC R1629	813,278	764

bring forth Richard Earl of Arundell being in his Custodie whom the said Constable brought into the Parliament the 21. of September At what time the Lords Appellants came also in their proper persons To the which Earl the Duke of Lancaster Steward of England by the Kings commandement and assent of the Lords declared the whole circumstances After the reading and declaring whereof the Earl of Arundell saith that he had one pardon made at the Parliament in the 11 R. 2. and one pardon made within six years before that present time and prayeth that they may be allowed The Duke answered that for as much as they were unlawfully made the present Parliament had revoked them The said Earl was therefore willed to say further for himself at his perill whereupon Sir Walter Clopton the Chief Justice by the Kings commandement declared to the Earl that if he said no other thing that the Law would adjudge him guilty of all the Actions against him The which Earl notwithstanding would say no other thing but required allowance of his pardon The Lords Appellants therefore in proper person require that Judgement may be given against the said Earl as convict of the Tresons aforesaid The Duke of Lancaster by the assent of the King Bishops and Lords adjudged the said Earl convict of all the Articles aforesaid and thereby a Traytor to the King and Realm and that he should be therefore hanged drawn and quartered and for●eit all such his Lands in Fee or Fee tayl as he had the nineteenth day of November in the tenth year of the King together with all his Goods and Chattels But for that the said Earl was come of Noble blood and House the King pardoneth him the execution of hanging drawing and quartering and granted that he should be beheaded And thereupon commandement was given to the Lord de Morley Lieutenant of the Marshall of England to do execution next to the Tower of London and so the said Earl was beheaded the same day Upon a Writ sent to Thomas Earl Marshall Captain of Callice to bring forth the body of Thomas Duke of Gloucester the said Captain returned the said Earl was dead in his keeping in the Kings prison at Callice After which returne read in Parliament the Lords Appellants in proper persons required that the said Duke might be adjudged even as a Traytor The Commons required the same Whereupon the Duke was adjudged a Traytor And that he should forfeit all such Lands in Fee or Fee-tayl as he had the thirteenth day of November in the eleventh year of this King and all his Goods and Chattels After this the Lords Appellants in proper persons require that if there were any confession or Record touching the aforesaid appeal of the persons appealed that the same might openly be declared Whereupon one Commission directed to Wil. Richill one of the Justices of the common Place to take the examination of the said Duke was returned and read with the examination of the said Earl made and written in the Castle of Callice with the very hand of the said Duke The Confession first declareth how that he was one that procured the Commission made in Anno 10. and thereby accroached to himself regall power in restraint of the King and Derogation of his Prerogative as since he learned albeit he then thought it not any and therefore craveth pardon He further confesseth an offence for coming armed into the Kings presence albeit he did the same for dread of his life and craveth pardon therefore He further acknowledgeth an offence for taking the Kings Leters from the Kings Messengers and interrupting the same He also accuseth himself for speaking slanderous words to the King in the presence of others albeit he meant no harme He further confesseth his evill for asking of certain learned with others whether he might not give up their Homage for fear of their lives which they meant Finally he confesseth that he with others for two or three days space meant to have deposed the King For all which his unkindness he craveth pardon After the reading hereof William Rickhill in open Parliament affirmed the said Confession to be made by the said Duke of his own free will being of perfect remembrance The Earl of Warwick was brought into the Parliament by the Constable of the Tower the 28th of September at what time the Lords Appellants were in proper person and to the which Earl the Duke of Lancaster Steward of England declared the accusations conteined before in the tit 12.13 The same Earl confessed all the points of Treason aforesaid and submitted himself to the Kings grace Whereupon the said Duke by assent of Parliament gave the like Judgement of this Earl as of the Earl of Arundell before tit ●7 for like Lands and Goods to have relation to the 13th day of November in the 10th year After Judgement the King at the request of the Lords Appellants and Commons to the said Earl pardoneth the execution aforesaid and gran●eth to him life to remain banished during the same in the Isle of Man upon condition that no means should be made of any further favour to him And the said Earl was delivered to Sir William le Scroope and Sir Stephen his Brother to bring him to the said Isle both of whom undertooke body for body safely to keep the said Earl in the said Isle without departing there from The said Lords Appellants do appeal Thomas Mortimer Knight for the Treasons aforesaid who was fled into the wilde parts of Ireland whereupon the Parliament assigned a certain day for the said Thomas to come and render himself to the Law or else to be as a Traytor and that thereof Proclamation as aforesaid The Lords Appellants came into the Parliament in proper persons and required Judgement of the said Thomas as afore Vide in this year before tit 9. 16. The Duke of Lancaster therefore as Steward of England by the assent of the Parliament adjudged the said Sir Thomas attainted of the Treasons aforesaid and that he should forfeit all such Lands in Fee or Fee-tayl as he had the 13th of November in Anno tenth together with all his Goods and Chattells The said Lords Appellants impeached Sir Iohn Cobham Knight for the Articles expressed in tit 12. 13. He answered that he did not the same of his own procuring but by the Kings sundry Commandement notwithstanding the said Duke pronounced him by assent of Parliament a Traytor and therefore death● that he should forfeit all such Lands as he had in Fee the nineteenth of November Anno tenth with his Goods and all fee tayled Lands for terme of his own life onely the

Justice neither for the Great Seal Letter or other Commandment Item It is enacted That Sir William Montacute and all others with him at the apprehension of the Earl of Ma●ch and others in Nott. being done by the Kings commandment shall be acquitted thereof and all other Murthers and Felonies there done It is also enacted That one Recognisance of Two thousand pounds which the Bishop of Winchester stood bound to pay to King Edward the Second should be void Anno Quinto Edwardi Tertii In the same Roll are contained the Remembrances of the Parliament at Westminster the morrow after S. Michael in the Fifth year of King Edward the Third THe Bishop of Winchester being Chancellor sheweth that the Parliament was called to treat of affairs touching the Land of Guienne and for Peace and other issue to be had between the King and the French and for the affairs of Ireland and for the Kings expedition thither The King by the Chancellor asketh Whether it were best to treat with the French by way of Amity or Marriage according to the offer of the French The Commons think the way of marriage to be the best after which certain Lords there named are appointed to treat therein Touching the affairs with Ireland it is fully accorded That the King shall passe thither in person and that in the mean time a power be sent thither and commandment given that all such as have any Lands there do repair thither for defence of the same It is agreed That all feats of Arms shall be defended as well by the Justices as others untill the King and his Councel do otherwise appoint It is accorded that such learned in the law as shall be sent as Justices or otherwise to serve in Ireland shall have no excuse That search be made among all the Kings Records to see what hath been for the amendment of the Irish. Sir E●ball le Strange and eleven other Mainprisors to bring forth the body of Hugh the son of Hugh le Despencer the younger to answer in this Parliament who brought him forth accordingly and shew the Kings pardon to him made whereof they pray allowance and discharge of themselves which was granted It is agreed That Queen Isabel the Kings mother shall have yearly Four thousand pounds in rents or lands All the Estates in full Parliament do agree That none of them shall retain sustain or avow any Felon or other common breaker of the Law It is enacted That no Purveyance be made but for the King Queen and their children and that by good warrant and ready payment The King shall appoint certain persons to determine the Office of Thomas de Ferrers and other his brothers of the Parsonage of Marlston in the County of Leicester Commandment is given to the Abbot of Crowland and Sir Thomas Wake of Liddle between whom debate had been to keep the Peace The like Commandment was given to Sir William d● la Zouch of Ashby and to Sir Iohn Grey of Rotherfield The Bishop of London shall be in Councel attendant upon the King with others of the Councel The whole Estate moveth the King to be gracious to Edward the son of the late Earl of March the King asked what they would have done sith King Edward the Second was murthered by the procurement of the said Earl● they answer for certain Lands intailed the Kings answer was That the same should be done at his pleasure At the request of the whole Estate the King dischargeth Sir Thomas Berkley and his Mainprisors and day given to him to appear at the next Parliament By this and the eighth title before it appeareth that the old usage was That when any person being in the Kings displeasure was thereof acquitted by tyral or pardon yet notwithstanding he should put in twelve of his Peers to be his sureties for his good behaviour at the Kings pleasure Whereas Sr Henry Piercy for the yearly Fee of 500 Marks stood bound to serve the King with a certain number of men as well in Peace as in War The King in release of the same Fee granteth to the said Earl in Fee the Castle of Workworth in Northumberland and the Mannor of Rochbury In the backside of the lame Roll. Robert of Benhall Knight William of Clapton and Iohn of Clapton being convicted before the Justices of Assize in Norfolk and Suffolk of certain riots with sundry Knights and Esquires their sureties appeared in full Parliament and were severally fined and further bound with sureties to their good behaviour Sundry Merchants of Brabant were arrested by the English Merchants for Wools taken up to the use of the Duke of Brabant at which Dukes request the King requireth that all the English Me●chants do appear before the Councel and abide further Order therein Anno Sexto Edwardi Tertii The Parliament holden at Westminster the Monday next after the Feast of S. Gregory in the Sixt year of King Edward the Third AT this day these two Articles were read before the King and Councel and after proclaimed in Westminster and London and more was not this day for the Archbishop of Canterbury and others were not come The first was that no man upon pain to lose all he had should use or wear any coat of Plate or other weapon in London Westminster or the Suburbs of the same The second was That no games or other plays of men women or children should be used in VVestminster to the disturbance of the Parliament After that the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London Chancellor of England by way of Oration sheweth how the French King went to take a voyage to the Holy Land and desired the Kings Company which caused the King to call the same Parliament That being said Sir Ieffery le Scroop in the presence of the King by his commandment declared That the same was called as well to redress the breach of the Laws and Peace as for the Kings going to the Holy Land The Bishops answered That it did not properly appertain to them to councel in matters of peace and to prescribe for the punishment of evils and therefore they and the Proctors of the Clergie went by themselves to consult therein and the Lords and the Commons by themselves The Lords and the Commons return and by the mouth of Sir Henry Beomont think it best to treat of matters of Peace namely that certain Justices should be appointed in every County and of their power to determine that in every shire certain Officers with the Constables be appointed for apprehending of the evill

whom it is holden To their purchase the King granteth so as such meer Welshmen cannot find sureties for the peace and good behaviour Certain Counties bordering upon the Marches of Wales require remedy against such Welsh-men as come into their Counties committing sundry robberies rapes felonies and other evils The King by the advice of the Lords Marchers will provide remedy They require that no person upon an Inquest of Office by the Escheator be put out of his Lands finding Sureties to answer to the King if it be found for him or that no Patent be thereof granted The Statute therefore made shall be executed The Print touching the making of Woollen clothes and in the Office of Alnager cap. 2. agreeth with the Record They require paiment of divers Loans made unto the King upon Privy seals the day being long past The King will pay the same with all opportunity They require that none of the five principal Officers now appointed by Parliament be displaced before the next Parliament without some special fault found in them The Statutes therefore made in this Kings first year shall be observed That the English Merchants may be answered of the Scots goods remaining within the Realm for such their goods as are taken in Scotland The King will do what may be done from time to time That Parsons or Vicars have nor require any Mortuaries of the Armor of any man but that the said Armor may remain to their Heirs and Executors It shall continue as it hath The Print touching Provision Reservation and such merchandise from the Court of Rome cap. 3. in effect agreeth with the Record but nothing in form For the Print doth make no mention of the Popes abuses ne once to name the Pope where the Record doth altogether as saying that such novelties and abuses crept up lately viz. since the time of Clement the First It declareth that Pope Gregory promised to Edw. 3. to cease all such doings and that Urban that then was had notwithstanding granted unto one Cardinal Alleine the Priory of Decburst which never before was heard or suffered That he had granted to the Cardinal of Cisteron a Rebel to the King an expectation through the Province of Kent with the Clause of Ante ferri to the Tax of Four thousand pounds in Florins and to the said Cardinal the Archdeaconry of Bath besides divers and many others Anno Quarto Richardi Secundi Rex c. charissimo suo avunculo Johanni Regi Ca-Castellae Legionis Duci Lancastriae c. salutem Apud Westm. Crastino die Johannis ante Portuam Latinam Teste Rege Vicesimo quarto die Martii Consimili●er subscriptis THom de Woodstock Com. Buck. Constabular Angliae Thom. de Holland Com. Kant Ricardo Com. Arundel Thom. de Bello campo Com. Warr. Hugo Com. Staff Edw. de Courtney Com. Devon Willielmo de Monteacuto Com. Salis. Hen. de Percie Com. Northumb. Johanni de Moubray Com. Nottingham Jacobo de Audley de Helleigh Willielmo Bardolf de Warmegy Guidoni Brian Johanni Clinton Gilberto Talbot Johanni le Ware Henry le Scroop Tho. Rosse de Hamelake Johanni de Nevill de Raby Johanni Gray de Codenore Henry Grey de Wilton Reginaldo Grey de Ruthin Mauritio de Barkley Warrino de Insula Henry Fitz-Hugh Ricardo Scroop Nicho. Burnel Willielmo la Zouch de Harringworth Rogero de Clifford Johanni Buttort Rogero de Scales Rado de Cromwel Michaeli de la Poole Petro de Malo lacu Tho. de Berkley Willielmo de Thorp Willielmo de Windsor Rado Baroni de Greystock Roberto de Harrington Roberto de Willoughby Johanni de Clifton Johanni Cobham de Kent Hugoni de Dacre Rogero de Strange de Knokine Willielmo de Furnival Willielmo de Alde Burgge Ricardo de Seymore Rado Basset de Drayton Tho. Dacre Tho. de Morley Johanni Bourchier Waltero Fitzwalter Johanni Lovel de Hichemerch Johanni de Monteacuto Roberto de Ashton Custodi Quinque Portuum Anno Quarto Richardi Secundi The Parliament holden at Northampton the Munday next after the Feast of All Saints in the fourth year of Richard the second ON the same Munday being the fifteenth day of November certain Bishops and Lords assembled in Northampton in a Chamber within the Priory at S. Andrews therefore appointed where the Archbishop of Canterbury and Chancellor caused the great Charter to be read which done for that sundry of the Lords and Commons were not come by reason of the foul wayes much imp●ited by a continual and outragious wet season and for that the Sheriffs had not returned their Writs the same Parliament by Commandment of the King who then was come in person to the Mannor of 〈◊〉 was adjourned to Thursday morning next ensuing The same Thursday the King being accompanied with sundry Bishops and not many Lords temporal for that the Duke of Lancaster and many of the Lords were then appointed to be on the Marches of Scotland came into the Chamber aforesaid whereunto were called the Kings Justices Serjeants Advocates and Commons where the Chancellor aforesaid for his introduction made a good collation which is not expressed He then declared that the Kings mind was to maintain the Liberties of the Church and to see the Common peace preserved and that the especial cause of the Parliament was for that the King in setting forth the Duke of Buckingham with a great Army of men into France for enterprizing this voyage into Scotland and for defending 〈◊〉 and other places beyond the Seas had not only defraied all that which they granted to him in the last Parliament but also was therefore enforced for making of Exchanges and Shifts to lay in manner his whole Jewels to gage all which to them was not unknown He willeth them to consider the same and how farther the King was bound by sundry means now to maintain not only the same charge now begun but also to make ready certain Gallies and to keep the Sea which were a matter impossible for any Christian Prince to accomplish of himself without aid about which and with the circumstances thereunto he willeth them to consult and speedily to give answer Receivers of Petitions for England Ireland Wales and Scotland Receivers of Petitions for Gascoyne and other places beyond the Seas and for the forein Isles Tryers of petitions for England c. as above Tryers of petitions for Gascoin c. as above The Chancellor then willed the Commons to depart to their lodging and to return next morning unto the new 〈◊〉 within the same Priory there to consult and to forget all manner of rancour and malice After that the Commons had for one day consulted they came into the Parliament into the Kings presence where Sir Iohn Oldersburgh Knight the Speaker desired a more fuller Declaration of the Kings necessity and what sum total he would

Complaints against the Mayor and Townsmen in Parl. the Copy of it denied them p. 200. William de Burcester and his wives Bill of Complaint in Parl. p. 260. See more Title Parliament and King Bishops their promise never to dissent from the Kings promise for the Customs of wooll but by common assent of Parliament p. 24. A Statute exemplified under the great Seal at their request p. 44 Bishop elect p. 45. Bishops to certify the names of all Aliens Benefices and their value into the Chancery p. 50. Their Officers extortions complained of which the King will speak to them to redress p. 61 536. See Archbishop Their Certificate of Bastardy p. 61 62. it appertains not properly to them to give Counsel in matters of Peace or punishments of evils and malefactors p. 11. Consult a part by themselves p. 11 13. They and the Judges to meet and settle the differences about Pensions of Churches p. 139. Bishops to look to the purgation of notorious felons committed to their Prisons To pay to the subsidy as the Laity do for their temporal possessions come to them or purchased since 20 E. 1. p. 163. The Bishop of Winchesters pardon Ibid. To punish Usury p. 285. Not to be imprisoned but fined and ransomed only by reason of their Order for temporal Offences p. 293. Their Protestations to be present in all Parliaments but not in cases of Treason and blo●d by reason of the Canons p. 322. All sworn in Parliament on the Archbishop Crosse Ib. The King will move them concerning Tith of woo p. 349. Their Tenants not to contribute to Knights wages p. 1. By office to take care sufficient persons be presented to Benefices and that they reside on them p. 356. An Oath prescribed to them and their successors and taken by them on the shrine of St. Edward to observe all Ordinances of the Parl. of 21 R. 2. p. 369. Their joint thanks to the King in Parliament for pardoning the Bishop of Norwich p. 405. They jointly intercede to the King for the life of Sir Thomas Haxey condemned in Parliament p. 362. Their Chaplains dispensed with for Pluralities and Non-residence p. 409. Their Jurisdictions saved by a Proviso p. 409. To take order that every Parson may reside on his Benefice and keep Hospitality p. 420 421. Bishops elect to be confirmed by the Metropolitan upon the Kings writs without delay by reason of the damnable scism at Rome p. 445. The Bishops assent to the Bill that no man should contract himself to any Queen of England without the Kings license and assent under pain of losse of goods and lands so far forth as it swarveth not from the Law of God and the Church and importeth no deadly sin p. 589. All sworn to the Pope and See of Rome and therefore protest against any thing attempted in Parliament to restrain the Popes power p. 362. To attend the Kings Counsel when chosen of it only when they could p. 611. To pray for the Kings estate the peace and good government of the Land and continuance of the Kings good will to the Commons p. 96. They make a Common Proctor to represent them in Parliament in Criminal causes wherein they could not be personally present by the Cannons p. 368 371. The Bishoprick of Ely granted in Commenda p. 623. Bloud Royal Nobles descended of it their precedency p. 363 574 575 576 578 665 666 667 94 332 370 564. Bohemians banished p. 324. Bohemia destroyed through Infidelity p. 591. St. Botophs the Staple held there p. 125. The Bounds between Holland and Kesteven Cambridge and Lincolnshire to be set out by a Commission and Perambulation p. 335 579. Bowstaves an Act concerning them p. 700. Brabant debate touching keeping the Peace and Covenant with the Duke thereof p. 23. the free trade of those of Brabant for woolls to the Staple at Bruges restrained p. 52. An act for restraint of Clothes and wools in Brabant p. 639 644. Brant river the Wears thereon to be removed p. 124. Breach of Prison See Prison Breakers of the Peace to be arrested p. 136. See Peace and Privilege of Parl. Brecknock Castle p. 565. Brest in Britany p. 157 174 175 312 345. Browers an Act concerning Patents made to them p. 644 and concerning Brewers in Kent p. 660. Bribery and Bribes against Judges oaths Thorp Ch. Justice condemned to death for taking Bribes p. 74 316. Richard Lyons impeached and censured for taking Bribes to pay the Kings due debts p. 121. Bribes for probate of Wills complained of p. 178. A Castle sold and surrendred for Bribes the monie ordered to be paid to the King and parties censured p. 292 293. The Justices of both Benches and Barons to be sworn to take no consideration or Bribes p. 294. The Lord Chancellor accused of Bribery and acquitted p. 299 300 316. A Petition that all the Kings chief Officers may be sworn to shun all Bribery and the attainted thereof to lose all he hath p. 394. No Judges or chief Of●icers to take Bribes under pain of treble damages p. 472. Hugh Brice his impeachment and Account of the kings Exchange to a committee of Lords and Commons p. 684 685 686. Bridges lands purchased and Guardians appointed for the repair of Rochester bridge p. 344. Rents and Customs paid to the old to be paid to the new bridge there p. 370. An Act for Burford and Chalam Bridges near Abindon and free passage over them p. 561. Custom demanded of Boats at Bridges complained of p. 132. Bridgenorth men to exact no imposition for wines passing Severn River p. 482. Bristol petitioned to be made a County bounded their Charters and Liberties confirmed by Parliament p. 119. They erect a fair and prohibit their Townsmen to bring any wares to Bath fair out of malice to Bath for which redresse is sought p. 133. complain of their wrongfull arrests at Callice for the Trespasses and Debts of others p. 138. Lands recovered before the Mayor and Bayliff thereof by an Assize of Freshforce reversed in the K. B. by error and thereupon error brought in Parliament p. 352. Claim and take Custom for wines discharged at Chepstow complaint thereof p. 358. Complain and require redresse of new taxes imposed on their wares passing the River of Severn by the men of Beaudley Gloucester Worcester Bridgenorth p. 482 483. Britain Lord Latimers oppressions there p. 122. Petition for payment of victuals taken by the Duke in Britain in Devonshire in his passage p. 137. Articles between the king and Iohn Duke of Britain read and agreed by the Lords Liberty granted to transport victuals and Merchandise into Britanie thereupon p. 157. Henry 6. his war with Britain and Ed. 4. his peace and alliance with the Duke of Britain p. 683. Merchants robbed by the Britains p. 581. Brocage of debts and usury complained of and examined p. 61 121 285.611 Brokers of Rome their abuses p. 128. Brok●rs and Lumbards maintaining usury and Sodomy complained of and to be